IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from October 11

Here are five Fastmarkets MB you might have missed on Friday October 11 that are worth another look.

Most of the import prices for flat-rolled steel products were stable during the week ended October 11 in South America, because Chinese mills did not significantly change offers made before their Golden Week holiday, which ended on October 7.

Miners MMG and Citic Metal have declared force majeure on copper concentrate supply contracts from the Las Bambas mine in Peru.

Weak spot demand for foundry alloy pushed the premium in the United States to a two-year low and the premium in Germany to an all-time low on October 11.

China's domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate prices held steady this week after the Golden Week national holiday on October 1-7, and lithium hydroxide prices were also flat due to a lack of domestic buying.

Southwestern China's Kunming Intermediate People's Court will release cargoes of four minor metals held by the collapsed Fanya Metal Exchange for auction, it said in a notice seen by Fastmarkets on October 11.

Immediate trigger for crash was new Fed Chairman pick

Gold stocks slump on metal price decline

Is the gold market starting to turn 'irrationally exuberant'?

Gold stocks explode up as equity markets languish

Gold stocks outpace flat large caps